Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 700
areseparated by spaces formed by long wedges of steel, the thick ends o.which hang down considerably below the line of matrices. These aredropped one by one from a store at I (Fig. 313^), when required, by a touchon the key-bar J ; two of them are shown in position in the assemblingstick G. In Fig.… … Fig. 313</. —A Line of Matrices. operator has to consider whether he can complete the line with another,or with how many syllables of a word, and he touches the keys of the re-quired letters. The assembling stick then contains all the matrices com-paratively loosely packed side by side, for the…
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